In article <hscbg5te25lpj3r7e3maa08ctj69e8s
...@4ax.com>,
Hatunen <hatu
...@cox.net> wrote:
> Saying it's German only says a little bit about the language as
> spoken. The dialects are so various that a German-speaker from
> one place might not be able to understand a German-speaker from
> another place.
If they're speaking purely local dialect and from fairly far apart
within Germany, "might not" can easily become "will not". Even a
strong accent in attempted Hochdeutsch can be difficult to deal with.
I'm fine in the Ruhr and Schwaben, but had some problems in the Eifel.
--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist
http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo
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